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GitHub is a web-based hosting service for software development projects that use the Git revision control system. GitHub offers both paid plans for private repositories, and free accounts for open source projects. GitHub is the most popular Git hosting site, and the most popular open source hosting site. Git became very popular due to its awesome documentation and numerous extra free resources — like Scott Chacon’s Pro Git book — which explain Git in great detail. But these are not interactive and you have to install software, learn all the commands. You are pretty much on your own to figure out what’s happening. Try Git is initiative of CodeSchool and GitHub. Try Git will help you learn the basic of using GitHub. There is no need to install GitHub software because it works right away from the browser. It has a command line prompt, paired with step-by-step instructions and a visual representation of a Git repository, along with some tips and tricks for figuring out Git. The Try ...

With many e-commerce sites coming up India. Buying book has never been much easier. While it has made shopping easier it has brought a problem of finding the best deal, lowest price offers. Here is a exhaustive list of Book price comparison sites in India. http://www.iglooo.in/ :—                   http://www.mysmartprice.com/books/ :—  http://www.indiabookstore.net/ :— http://thisyathat.com/ :— http://www.mydiscountbay.com/ :— http://cheapr.me/ :— http://turrg.com/category/Books :— Here are some sites which search for a book using ISBN or EAN number. So you need the number beforehand. http://isbn.net.in/ http://price-checker.in/ http://isbn.startupgang.com/ So, this is it. The list may be incomplete but quite enough nevertheless. Check them out and use whichever you find good. Some of them even fetch Mobile and other electronics prices too. Be careful to not to just go with the lowest price. Always check if it is older edition or if it is used or old.

If you work with multiple windows open in background, you must have spent a lot of time switching back and forth between them even for simple tasks like copying files or comparing text. You can save a lot of hard work of switching back and forth by cascading them or stacking or displaying them side by side. Cascade , puts windows in a single stack that has been fanned out . Stacked , puts windows in one or more vertical stacks . Side by side , places all open windows , in a side by side arrangement so you can see all the windows at once. Arrange windows in a cascade (left), vertical stack (center), or side-by-side pattern (right) You can do this easily by Right Click on empty area on Taskbar and choosing the arrangement you want. You can also snap an open window to Left/Right side by using the Windows logo key +Left Arrow or Windows logo key +Right Arrow

If you have a Nvidia graphics card in your PC, and if it supports Nvidia 3D Vision, you’ll have some .jps images in your Pictures folder. If you opened them on a non 3d screen you’ll encounter a error as shown below. .jps is extension for JPEG Stereoscopic images. It usually contains one image of double width, representing two images of identical size in cross-eyed side-by-side arrangement. To open .jps files you can simply change the extension to .jpg and open them in your regular Image Viewer like Windows Photo Viewer. You can also drag and drop them in other photo editing tools like IrfanView or XnView without changing the extension. The image you will see, will essentially be like below on a non-3D screen.

AT is abbreviation for ATTENTION. AT commands are used for controlling the modem directly. These commands are derived from Hayes Modems commands which were in use few decades earlier. You can use AT command to do specific task which your Modem’s dashboard does not allow you to do. For example sending USSD command to check prepaid balance. Dashboard just act as interface between you and the modem. You can use AT command to do some common tasks:—  1. Obtain info about device and SIM. 2. SMS/MMS services. 3. Data Services. 4. Voice Services. To send AT command you need to have the manual of the modem, and remote shell client like PuTTY. Here is nice and detailed instruction to send AT commands to your modem. http://3g-modem.wetpaint.com/page/common+AT-commands You’ll need to find AT commands specific to your modem. Many modems have some common ETSI compliant commands but they may have their own proprietary commands. Search on Google for them.  For this you are on your own. Here a...

You might have come across videos that have their audio out of sync. And if it is a movie you will probably don't want to delete that file. Well there is an easy way to fix that using VLC. It is also possible to fix out out of sync subtitles using VLC using same procedure. Figure out the lag of the audio/subtitle. Then navigate to Tools >  Track Synchronization. Alternatively   you can use Ctrl + E shortcut. In the pop-up windows that opened, adjust the settings according to the lag. If the subtitle/audio is lagging behind the video, the value would be negative. For example the lag is 3 seconds after the video, the value you would fill be –3.000 s. After you have adjusted the settings, hit the Refresh button. And you are done. There is also shortcut keys for the above job, but they aren't as precise. They move the audio back or forth by 50ms. There are also cool features in VLC that you might like. Play in ASCII mode: —> Open VLC media player and click on Tools>Prefe...

Stop the Internet Explorer 9’s pop-up message that says “Speed up browsing by disabling add-ons’. There are few ways to do this, but choosing the “Ask me later” button just delays the pop-up for 24 hours. You  can also click on the arrow to the right of the button and select “Don’t disable”. This will stop the pop-up for a month, which is better than seeing it every day. For a more convenient solution, click “Choose add-ons”. In the window displayed, the timer at the bottom lets you choose how much time add-ons have to load. Setting it to the longest time(10 seconds) will stop the pop-up as long as you don’t have any add-ons that take longer than this to load. You can also disable or enable any add-on later from Manage Add-ons in the Tools Menu present at upper right corner of IE.